Roy Davids, head of the Manuscripts and Books department at Sotheby's for many years, built up what must be the most significant privately-owned collection of poets' manuscripts and memorabilia. This collection is now

When Joseph Heymann, a Jewish manufacturer and art collector from Cologne, fled to London in 1937, he did not leave empty-handed. With him came 70 paintings by Fritz Schaefler, whose patron he had been for more than a

Read Ben Judah's dispatch from Tuva here 

For a literary grandee with striking features-all angled nose, chin and eyebrows-T.S. Eliot was much photographed but surprisingly little painted. Wyndham Lewis painted him twice, including one portrait that was reject